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Society | February 14, 2005, Monday // 00:00
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Kaffe band will represent Bulgaria at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest. Runner-up, top TV host Slavi Trifonov in a duet with Roma music icon Sofi Marinova refused to perform in a "predetermined contest". Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia News Agency)
Heated debates continue in Bulgaria over the marred final of the local Eurovision contest.
World media comments that following the chaotic events of the Bulgarian final in Sofia on Saturday night, lyricist for Slavi's entry, Rossen Petrov, claims that SIM cards contested the show rather than performance. He claimed that 80 people could generated 80,000 votes because a person could vote 1,000 times from a cell phone.
The online edition esctoday.com cites Ovanes Melik-Pashaev, president of Joker Media announced that the accusations are groundless. The Bulgarian National Television (BNT) was considering failing a legal suit against Slavi Trifonov who announced yesterday during the concert of the 12 finalists for Eurovision Song Contest that the result was rigged.
The rapper Ustata (the Mouth), one of the presenters of the 12 final songs, announced that there was "no normal human being who could believe that Kaffe could have more fans than Slavi."
The viewers chose the Bulgarian song for the Eurovision Song Contest to be Lorrain by Kaffe. They won with 76,590 votes. Slavi Trifonov and Sofi Marinova with the song "The only one" came second with 48,803 votes despite their refusal to perform the song. It should be mentioned that had Slavi sung, he may well have received the additional votes needed to win the event and qualify for the Eurovision Song Contest semi final on 19th May, the online edition comments.
Instead Trifonov blasted the vote as manipulated. Slavi Trifonov, who joined the contest in a duet with Roma icon Sofi Marinova, accused the winner, Kaffe, of rigging and buying the vote.
In a separate move, mobile operator MobilTel issued an official statement, saying the results reflect the true votes of the audience, cast via SMSs.
World media comments that following the chaotic events of the Bulgarian final in Sofia on Saturday night, lyricist for Slavi's entry, Rossen Petrov, claims that SIM cards contested the show rather than performance. He claimed that 80 people could generated 80,000 votes because a person could vote 1,000 times from a cell phone.
The online edition esctoday.com cites Ovanes Melik-Pashaev, president of Joker Media announced that the accusations are groundless. The Bulgarian National Television (BNT) was considering failing a legal suit against Slavi Trifonov who announced yesterday during the concert of the 12 finalists for Eurovision Song Contest that the result was rigged.
The rapper Ustata (the Mouth), one of the presenters of the 12 final songs, announced that there was "no normal human being who could believe that Kaffe could have more fans than Slavi."
The viewers chose the Bulgarian song for the Eurovision Song Contest to be Lorrain by Kaffe. They won with 76,590 votes. Slavi Trifonov and Sofi Marinova with the song "The only one" came second with 48,803 votes despite their refusal to perform the song. It should be mentioned that had Slavi sung, he may well have received the additional votes needed to win the event and qualify for the Eurovision Song Contest semi final on 19th May, the online edition comments.
Instead Trifonov blasted the vote as manipulated. Slavi Trifonov, who joined the contest in a duet with Roma icon Sofi Marinova, accused the winner, Kaffe, of rigging and buying the vote.
In a separate move, mobile operator MobilTel issued an official statement, saying the results reflect the true votes of the audience, cast via SMSs.
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